Red earth and silhouetted baobabs trees set against a fiery sunset sky. Granite domes dwarf the spreadeagled msasa trees
Read MoreCecil Rhodes: King of Diamonds
Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa. He was prime minister of Cape Colony (1890 – 1896) and organiser of the giant diamond-mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
Read MoreChaminuka Ndimambo
A military strategist, warrior, prophet, musician and a poet, Chaminuka is one of the most revered spirits in Shona traditions. Sekuru Garikai recounts his story.
Read MoreMana Pools National Park shot in 5K
A 5K documentary film shot in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe along the Zambezi River and the border to Zambia. Mana Pools is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of the few big game areas in Africa that guests are
Read MoreFinding Mercy
Robyn and Mercy, were poster children for the new Zimbabwe. Robyn was as pale-skinned as Mercy was dark, so the girls were a symbol that all was well in Zimbabwe.
Read MoreWhat does a family do when a child starts hearing voices and acts strange? Filmmaker Lawrie Zidyana’s documentary looks back at how his family dealt with a mystery that dominated his life growing up in Zimbabwe.
Read MoreState of Mind
Award winning documentary filmmaker and journalist Hopewell Chin'ono follows the work of leading African psychiatrist, Prof. Dixon Chibanda.
Read MoreNyaminyami: The Zambezi River God
The Zambezi River God and the role he plays in the lives of the people living along the banks of Africa's fourth-largest river.
Read MoreAre mermaids real?
Are the half-human, half-fish sea creatures chronicled in Zimbabwean lore since time immemorial real?
Read MoreZimbabwe’s Hidden Art Community
While the surrounding hills in the Great Dyke region are scarred by years of heavy mining, there's a different kind of rock chipping going on at Zimbabwe's hidden sculpture community.
Read MoreThe cough syrup, often of the brand Broncleer, is imported illegally from South Africa, and is sold on every street corner, in bars, school yards and on busses for as little as $3 a bottle.
Read MoreTake a glimpse into the "blisfull" life of a polygamous family from Mbengo Village in Chipinge.
Read MoreShe’s Not a Boy
“She’s Not a Boy” is the story of intersex woman who fled Zimbabwe with the hope that she would finally find a place where she belonged.
Read MoreZimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
A country that was once the jewel of Africa but where the infrastructure is now in terminal collapse. Grace, Esther and Obert show us how they not only struggle to put food in their mouths but also desperately seek the
Read MoreDiamonds, Gold and Greed
Zeinab Badawi travels to South Africa and Zimbabwe to see how southern Africans gradually came to grasp the destruction and suffering that would be inflicted upon them by white settlers.
Read MoreThe Selous Scouts was a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army that operated from 1973 until 1980.
Read MoreAkashinga: The Brave Ones
A story about a group of women who face down poachers in order to save Zimbabwe's most iconic wildlife.
Read MoreLobola / Roora is the customary token paid by the groom-to-be when he is about to marry his bride- to- be to his in-laws. Paying the bride price or roora is an acceptable way in the Zimbabwean culture for a
Read MoreAll About The Green with Dereck Chisora
London Real talk to Zimbabwean-born professional boxer Dereck Chisora.
Read MoreWould you go scuba diving in the Chinoyi Caves?
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what life is like for a sex worker? Emma narrates a day in the life and plans for the future.
Read MoreThe Kingdoms Of Southern Africa
Zeinab Badawi travels sub-Saharan Africa to find out about the powerful kingdoms of southern Africa and their rulers from 10th to 19th century.
Read MoreThe Chamhembe Story
The history of Zimbabwean music is incomplete without mentioning "vapfanha vemaCD”.
Read MoreCattle, Crops and Iron
Zeinab Badawi continues her journey through the history of Africa by exploring how ancient tribes began to domesticate wild animals.
Read MoreAncestors, Spirits and God
Zeinab Badawi learns about the relationship between Ancestors, Spirits and God from communities that practice traditional African religion across the continent.
Read MoreFrom traditional rituals of music and dance, through the stirring choruses of the liberation war, to the songs of the popular stars and farmers' choirs today, the people of Zimbabwe present their music.
Read MoreJulian Manyon and the team from Thames Television's 'TV Eye' travel to Zimbabwe to Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe,and some of his key revolutionary allies.
Read MoreHow free, how fair? (ca. 1980)
With elections looming in Southern Rhodesia, a small monitoring force work to ensure free and fair elections.
Read MoreGoodbye Rhodesia (ca. 1979)
Goodbye Rhodesia is a Thames Television documentary that captures the dying days of the Republic of Rhodesia in Southern Africa.
Read MoreMapungubwe (ca. 1705)
The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning ‘hill of the jackal’) is an Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. It sits close to the point where the Limpopo and Shashe
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